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Trade Review"The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations … are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world." – Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco "If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book." – Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UK
Table of ContentsWilliam C. Gay: Editorial Foreword Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface Introduction G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment Same-Sex Marriage as “Domestic Terrorism” Bodies that Resisted Containment The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama Conclusion Works Cited About the Authors Index
